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4 Th New-Review, Roteburg, Or.-Thuri Nov. 13, 1952 Fubliihid Daily xepf Sunday by the , News-Review Company, Inc. Inland aoand iliu matlar Mar 7, 12. st tha pail atflea at ftaieburs, Oraaoa, aadar act af March S, 1l? CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Menagar Mambar of tha Aiioclaad Preil, Oragori Nawipopar Publishers Auociotion, tha Audit Buiaau of Circulations Saareaaatal by WEST-HOLLIDAT CO.. INC., allie.i la Na Tark, Chlcaia, Saa Fraaelaea, Laa Aocalaa, Baaltla, rarUaad. It. Laala UBSCEIFTION RATES la Orafaa Br Mall Par Taar, lll.aa; all aiaalai, 11.15: tbraa manlbl, .. Br Nawi-KaYlaw Carrlar Par Ttar. Slt.M (la ad vaaca), lasa than ana yaar, par aaantb, $l.t. Onulda Orafaa By Mall Far Tear, $11.00t ala faaalhs, IS.Si tbraa anaatba. SJ.ti. JUNIOR'S THIRD PARTY Charles V. Stanton Senator Wayne (Junior) Morse, who seems to have talk ed himself out of a political home, apparently has it in mind to build himself a castle of his own. Inasmuch as every one is out of step but' Junior, it would appear from his continued political mouthings that he proposes to organize his own parade with himself as grand marshal and chief drummer boy. Morse is definitely out in the cold. He was one of the first to climb on the Eisenhower bandwagon. Then his be loved CIO, whose errands he runs with alacrity, endorsed Stevenson. The AFL did likewise. So here was Morse, labor's fairhaired boy, on one bosses on the other. It took for him to get into the other barbed wire and all. Now he has no party. He divorced himself from the Republican party. He can't become a Democrat officially that is although he has always been an ally. So, what to do? The answer is obvious his intention. That is to organize a third party. Junior apparently is planning to gather up the broken remnants of the Socialist wreck, the radical labor groups, and the fellow travelers. plumed charger, he'll satisfy the parade. Should Read Election Returns If Junior, however, will read the election returns, he'll find his third party program faces some tough obstacles. We have said in this column on several occasions that laboring men are Americans first and union members sec ond; that they have the traditional pride of an American in a free ballot; that they will not permit themselves to be regimented into political adherence. We were gratified by the conspicuous demonstration of this fact in the last elec tion. Despite the fact that union bosses had aligned them selves with the Socialist-Democrats and that vast sums were expended from labor's political war chest on behalf of Stevenson, the Democrats failed miserably in their expect ed and essentinl majorities in industrial centers. If Senator Morse believes he can become a Pied Piper to lead labor in any direction he chooses, ho is failing to In terpret election returns. While the laborer continues to think more of the welfare of America than the welfare of his union, as he has so thoroughly demonstrated, he will not permit himself to.be led or driven against his bettor judg ment. We do not mean to say that a third party Is neither pos sible nor probable. The trend in that direction has been shaping up for several years. When we have so many un affiliated or "independent" voters the field is wide open for an opportunist, and no one can say that Morse is not an expert and provjit opportunist. Major Parties (Need Revival. If we are to avoid a third party it will be necessary that the two existing parties strengthen their organizations. Voters today pay little attention to party lines. Major issues which once formed a strong line of demarcation be tween the two parties have broken down in recent years. Platforms and policies surrender to political expediency. We no longer have sharp conflict between political philos ophies. Votes are cast for the man rather than for the party. Perhaps the cha'nge in administration will result in a revival of party partisanship. Perhaps opposing philoso phies will be drawn into sharper conflict. Perhaps we can restore party strength and draw into the ranks of each of the two major parties large numbers of the now unaffili ated voters. ; If we fail In that task, we can expect a third party to develop, and Senator Morse, seeking a new home and his own parade, is freely offering himself as the leader. Are you a descendant of Wil liam K. Kilborn (Kilbournc?), last treasurer of Uie Provisional Gov ernment from 1847 to 1849. Or do you Know anyone who Is? If so. you can be of considerable assis tance to the State Archivist. Da vid C. Duniway, who is asking for ncip in locating a picture o Wil liam Kilborn (Kilbournc). It would be framed and placed in the office of the state treasurer. The picture would be copied and the original returned to owner. It should be sent registered mail to Mr. Duni way, at Salem, the State Library. "In tracing his career," writes Mr. Duniway, "we find he resided In the 1850's at Winchester, and ran for Uie offices of coroner and assessor in Douglas county. We do not know when or where he died, or what happened to his family. In 1850 he had two sons. August D., who was 7, and John II. C, who was 3. His wife was Caroline . . ' - Information Is also desired by the state archivist regarding such items as probate of the estate, or the re-marriage of his widow, or anything which his descendants may care to add to what is now on record. Are any of his descen dants now in Douglas countv? In Uie same letter Mr. Duni way also says "There arc only two other treasurers for whom we have no pictures, Nathaniel II. 1-ane and Levi A. Hire." So I assume tha state archivist would1 side of tho fence and his some fancy fence climbing pasture. But he achieved it, and his late remarks indicate Then, on his .whitewashed, his insatiable ego by leading ENDING BASKET rrbaaWaaj " mffcT M B3 rrbal WM j like to have (hose pictures, too. uj iiupc mis column win help. So now a word to two readers first. Mrs. Kva Lane Waile who played the part of the Dowager gueen so effectively at the Ump qua Cavalcade last Labor Day weekend, and delighted the limp qua chapter D.A.R., who had spon sored her. Was not Nathaniel Lane your uncle? And could you assist the archivist by sending him a picture? If you do not have one do you think Victoria Case, author of vfllir Dranclm.ithAr'a ........ r. Quiet Life of Mrs. General Lane," migiu nave one? Secondly. Mrs. Ulah Winston. Did you not tell me vour lovely home on the bank of tiia I'mnniii was the "Rice home, a land. mark?" Perh.ins Vnn mini, I Lnn. where a picture of Levi Rice may be? Perhaps owned bv someone who would not see this column? Oh yes, a third reader! Mrs. George Bacher! Any ideas? Anv clues? In all your research and travels did you meet up with Messrs. Kilborn, Lane or Rice? AIDS AT CLINIC DANCI Norine Kruysman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Kruysman. 3805 Hooker Road, was named registration chairman for the an nual folk dance clinic held Nov. S and 9 at Oregon State College in Corvallis. Miss Kruysman Is a Junior in science. The Gal Who IMS?! Copyright 1952, King Features Syndicate WASHINGTON There was a nervous moment at the Republican National Committee during the campaign to con vince Texans to vote for Gen. Dwiglit D. Eisenhower. The GOP received rush orders for 139 of its visual aid machines for distribution in Texas, only to react in horror with the realization that the most popular film strip and sound track, which displayed administration blunders in Korea, opened with the song, "Battle Hymn of the Republic." They should have relaxed. Tex ans, and, in fact a majority of the rest of our Southern residents, Re publicans and Democrats alike. have long since learned (o love this great song as a rightful part of American heritage. I know, because on a trip to Houston not too long ago, when I presented my Hollywood, Mary land, church choir to two thou sand Texans in the Shamrock Ho tel, the final hymn was this old and beautiful song. My youngsters still recall tho standing ovation they received. The. incident, however, highlights the uncharted course that the GOP National Committee embarked on when I decided to use visual aids for the first time in a nationwide political campaign. In their post election analysis, GOP experts are convinced that visual aid strips are more effective than many of the costly television programs used by candidates. There were 1.136 machines in operation, with seven separate films, including the one on Korea. Others were socialism, inflation, taxes and Truman Ad ministration scandals. Along with the visual aid strip on Truman scandals, the GOP dis tributed an 18foot banner, listing 22 White House scandals, 19 in the Defense Department; 10 in the PFC; 48in tho Bureau of Internal Revenue; 8 in the Justice Depart ment and 78 in the Department of Agriculture. Others less numer ous were in ihe Maritime Com mission, Slate, Treasury, Interior, Commerce and Post Office De partments. In a poll of 70 cities and coun ties where the film strips and sound tracks were used extensive ly, the GOP analysis of Korea was the most popular. Taxes were second and inflation third in ef fectiveness. The film strips were shown in schools, churches, clubs, political gatherings and in store windows on main streets in hundreds of cities. There were 976 film strips in use in Texas, 867 in Michigan and 638 in California. In Florida, also carried by the GOP, 280 film strips were displayed when Repub Garments, Coat Hanger Save Boy From Pistol Shot CINCINNATI Cfl Bobbie Hen derson. 17, has a small burn on his stomach. Police said It was caused by a pistol shot. The bullet, Henderson said, trav elled only two feet, but there were four pieces of dry cleaning and a providential coat hanger between him and the pistol. Police held Thomas Baldwin, 39. for investigation. They said he had been drinking. Young Henderson told police Baldwin shot at him Sunday night without warning in a hallwav, in Henderson's apart ment house. Tho .32 caliber bullet hit the clothing the youth was holding, passed through it and hit a wire coat hanger d.'sd center. The slug ! threaded itself on the w ire and j knocked the hanger out of the suit I Learned of the Two-Pa rty System 5n JmHZZi r. lican office seekers there demand ed them after news of Uieir popu larity had reached the state in the closing days of the campaign. Humphrey and Nelson determin ed early in the campaign to con centrate the visual aids in areas where GOP House and Senate members faced a hard fight. GOP candidates were elected in almost every area where visual aid ma chines were numerous. Both of the GOP publicicity officials now ad mit, however, that,- with the ex ception of Texas, they did not stress the South sufficiently. Only a few machines were used in Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi and Kentucky. In fact, the South was neglected to the extent that "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was selected as appropriate music, an error that will be corrected, des pite the forgiving nature of Tex as voters, who even endured that to get rid of the Truman Adminis tration. Hear Fulton Leivis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. Ex-U.N. Typist Relates Switch To Soviet Citizen NEW" YORK l - A pretty blonde typist related Tuesday how she gave up her American citizen ship to become a Soviet citizen While employed by the United Na tions. Miss Olga Michka. 33, told a Sen ate Internal Security subcommit tee she was suspended from her job for not notifying U. N. officials of her change of citizenship. (A U. N. spokesman confirmed that she was suspended for that reason and because she applied for and got rebates on V. S. in come taxes for the past three years since becoming a Soviet cit izen). Miss Michka. who typed scripts for broadcasts in Russian to the USSR, said she was born in Amer ia and applied for a Soviet pass port in 1939. She finally received It ten years later she said, thus giving up her U. S. citizenship. She has been em ployed at U. N. since 1946. Her mother and father were Rus sian born, she said, adding: "My mother always wanted to go back, and being close to her I de cided to go back too. fully realizing that I would, in the process, give up my U.S. citizenship." She said she had separated from her husband" and quarreled with her brother over political matters. The senate subcommittee is in vestigating possible subversion among U. S. employes of the U. N. Committee Counsel Robert Mor ris asked her. "do you mean to say that you did not notify the de partment in charge of personnel until November, 1952, that you bad received Soviet citizenship?" "No," replied Miss Michka,' "I did not think it necessary." Later she said she made no ef fort to conceal the fact she had obtained the Soviet passport. it was supporting without damag ing the suit. The hanger, twisted into a cork screw, punctured Henderson's clothing and burned his skin, the heat apparently coming from fric tion caused by the bullet's impact. The same impact knocked Hen- derson down, He found the bullet in his right trouser pocket ,k WHECE'VEVou nFlr-JM oU A VW In the Day's' News (Continued from Page One) present at least, the dog people say their pets have won a new "leash" on life. H-m-m-m-m! If dog owners and non-dog owners can't live together in harmony, what hope is there for world peace? The word is out in Augusta, Geor gia (where Ike is spending' an al leged "vacation") that the President-elect plans some important talks with top Republican leaders in New York next week before leaving for Korea. This disclosure was made today by some of Ei senhower's aides who asked that their identity be kept secret. Of course Ike will hold talks with his top leaders. S'pose you were taking over as the new head of an old established business. The FIRST thing you'd do would be to get your key men together to chew over what changes you're going to make. You'd be a sap if vou didn't. That's the way INTELLIGENT people do things. V. S. Consulate records at Frank furt show the United States is is suing visas to German wives of American soldiers at a record rate of 500 a month twice as many as a year ago. Officials ex plain that there are now- more American troops in Germany than at any previous time since German - American marriages were permitted. They add that many American soldiers are completing their ov erseas tour of duty and are being returned to the United States. They marry Deiore starling nome. Our American gals won't like that, but history tells us that IN TERMARRIAGE has been going on ever since occupying troops were first stationed in conquered countries. In such cases, nature just takes its course. If we don't like it, we'd better quit trying to run the World. Absorbing these German girls will be no problem for us, for we have already absorbed QUITE SUCCESSFULLY a large German element into our population. The Japanese wives of American sol diers present a more difficult problem. But again If we're going to run the world we'll have to accept the RESPONSIBILITIES that accrue to us as a result. For the good of our country, in the years of world leadership (hat seem to lie inevit ably ahead of us. I hope these Japanese wives are accepted tol erantly and respectfully in the communities in which they will settle We must remember that they are NEW AMERICANS and treat them as such. From Pittsburg: "The CIO's vice-presidents are meeting here today to start chart ing the future of the huge labor organization." How about forgetting laws to FORCE people to join and making the organization so useful and so attractive that everybody will A' A NT to join? I'm certain such a policy would be good for the United States of America, and I think it would be good for CIO. Woman On Alaska Isle Bears Quadruplets JUNEAU. Alaska, tm The birth of quadruplets to a woman on distant Unga island was re ported by the Coast Guard Wednes cay. The mother was identified as Mrs. Alma Rudolph. Her condition was reported good after the Coast Guard flew a doctor to the island last weekend in response to an emergency call. I'nga is south of the Alaska pen insula, about 330 miles beyond Kodiak. , 3'he 30-year-old woman was de scribed as the mother of six other children. There was no report on Uie sex of the latest arrivals. Right Of Press On Government Facts Stressed BOSTON UH Americans need to be continually reminded that a free people must have the right to get the facts about their govern ment and to publish them without fear of "savage and unfair repris al." That premise was laid down to day by J. Russell Wiggins of the Washington D. C, Post at the an nual meeting of The Associated Press Managing Editors Associa tion. Some 250 AP editors from all parts of the nation are attending the sessions which are analyzing the AP's methods of handling news. Wiggins, chairman of the APME Committee on Freedom of Infor mation, added these rights: "To publish tha government facts without prior restraint or censorship; "Access to facilities for dissem inating these facts; and "To distribute these facts to oth ers." The Washington editor declared a "courageous, enlightened and in formed press" is the most effective instrument for obtaining these rights. Fight Must Ca On "Newspaper men must carry to this fight the best available infor mation on the long struggle to es tablish and maintain access to the transactions of government indis pensable to a democratic people. "It must be prosecuted every time the right to know is chal lenged and in every place that it is obstructed." Wiggins criticized military auth orities for "postponing" publication of casualties "of military or civil ian employes of the defense estab lishment in the zone of the interior in time of peace." "The practice of the defense es tablishment of deferring for 12 hours beyond the notification of next of kin of victims of accidents,' ke said, "is a unilateral assertion of the right to withhold informa tion. " All-Wood Body For Trucks Will Conserve Steel WASHINGTON - The nation's lumber industry announces the de velopment of a new all-wood truck body, designed to conserve tight steel supplies and compete with steel truck bodies. The National Lumber Manufac turers Association, spokesman for the country's lumbermen, said the all-wood body will be unveiled next Thursday during NLMA's 1952 an nual meeting in Washington, D. C. The truck body, developed at the Washington laboratory of the Tim ber Engineering Company, re search arm of NLMA, is intended primarily for military use. But NLMA President John B. Veach said it also is adaptable to civilian trucks. An outstanding feature of the new truck body is its exceptional strength, achieved by gluing and bending much of the wood involv ed. Thin strips of black gum are glued in layers and then bent to form U-shaped framing members which run the width of the body. This laminating process gives the members much greater strength than ordinary limbers. The same principle is used in building wood en ship frames. The truck body to be publicly exhibited next Thursday has solid side and floor panels which can be mass produced by most wood working plants. Three all-wood truck bodies will be made available for tests at the Army's Aberdeen, Md., proving grounds early next year. Every part of the new body has been specially treated with preserva tives to make decay virtually im possible. Waterproof glues will prevent the laminated wood from separating, under moist tropical conditions. The truck body also is treated to resist warping. Brown-Hearst Fist Fight Costs $5,000 Ring BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. 1 -Bruised pride and loss of a $5,000 ring appeared Wednesday to be the main damage in a sidewalk fight between Publisher William Ran dolph Hearst Jr. and Capt. Horace Brown, husband of Marion Davies. The scuffle started after Brown invited Hearst to join him and Miss Davies at their table at Mike Romanoff's restaurant Tues day night Brown, 47, said "Hearst made a filthy remark about Marion, and I swung." Hearst, 44. denied making any such remark, and said the real trouble was that Brown insisted on his joining the party after " 'I told him 'no thanks.' " ' Both agreed Hearst knocked Brown down. Brown said he connected with a left before Hearst got into his car and drove off. Brown, a former Marine captain, said he lost a catseye ring insured for $5,000 in throwing hfs punches. He went back to the site twice looking for it in vain, he- added. "I had many a fight in my old seagoing days but none that stirred up talk like this one," Brown said. BUSINESS NAMES FILED The following certificates of as sumed business name have been filed with the county clerk: Triple H. lagging Co. Sutherlin, by A. L. Hethcock. Elmer T. Heth cock and Arthur E. Hethcock. Falcon Winch Co., manufacture and saie of winches, by C. W. Al dred rnd Bill L. Endicott, both of rO box 1130, Roseburg. North Sine Servile, service sta tion, by Ross E. Brookshire. Taxation, Fiscal Problems Spell Headaches For New Administration i By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent : ' WASHINGTON (NEA) The new President, of the United States may well bump his head on some tough new tax and fiscal problems week? before he even gets to warm his britches on his new White House chair. For instance, how is he going to balance the budget, covering the ?7 billion to ?10 billion deficit which he will inherit from the Truman administration in the first six months of 1953? ' He won't be' President for another 10 weeks. But the mere job of getting ready to be President will involve burning more midnight oil than he ever burned before. He may not have to make as many speeches as during his cam paign. But he'll have to hold a lot more conferences in which, no doubt, everyone will try to tell him just how he ought to run the country. A short-term, public-debt issue of $8.86 billion, 11-month Treasury notes bearing Vt per cent interest, will come due on Feb. 15, 1953. This will be the new administra tion's first big refinancing oper ation. How will it be handled? Every bank will watch. The last Treasury note issue to be refunded was for $10.8 billion bearing V.'t per cent interest. It came due Oct. 1 and was refunded for 14 months at 2lfc per cent in terest. The newa President and his Sec retary of the Treasury may try to continue this "cheap money" pe riod by trying to refinance the issue expiring on Feb. 15 at the old rates. . Or, the new adminis tration may be willing to let this rate rise a little. This is what many bankers want. They want the Democratic "cheap money" era to end. But if the new fiscal policy al lows this short-term interest rate to rise too much, it will get close to the interest rate which long term government bonds have cus tomarily paid. Part of the new policy may be to end this short term financing and force more of the government's debt into long term bond issues. Gradually this might force up all interest rates and so increase the cost of gov ernment as welt as private bor rowing. The savings bond program comes into this picture, too. For some months past, total redemp tions of matured and unmatured savings bonds have been in ex cess of sales. The program is not considered to be in bad shape. But the problem faced by the new ad ministration will be whether to of fer, say 3 per cent interest on new savings bonds to increase purchases. New administration policies on all ' these government borrowing problems will have to be deter mircd early. Ts.. rates present the new Presi dent with similar problems'. The excess profits tax expires for any taxable year beginning after June 30, 1953. Rate changes in surtax on individual incomes expire Dec. 31, 1953. So do the surtax rates on the head of a household and the limit on com bined individual normal and sur taxes. Excise tax increases of the 1951 revenue act expire March 31, 1954. Social Security To Be Upped These three items bring in an Underground Coal Produces Fuel When Burned a GORGAS, Ala. I Govern ment scientists have produced synthesis .gas from coal burned underground. It is a synthetic gas from which chemists can make gasoline, other fuels and various synthetic chemicals. The success of this phase of the experiment, disclosed today, cli maxes a six year series of tests here in gasification of coal the famed mining-by-fire experiment conducted by the Bureau of Mines in co-operation with the Alabama power company. It could mean the ultimate use of millions of tons of coal now left in Uie ground because mining by present methods is considered too costly for these deposits. This is the first time in the United States that synthesis gas has been made in appreciable quan tities from coal burning in its nat ural seam. A limited amount was produced in an earlier phase of the experiment here. It was made by pumping oxygen over a burning mass of coal about 200 feet underground in a practi cal application of laboratory ex periments of the past. Final evaluation awaits In In tensive study by the Bureau of Mines. But scientists who directed or observed the experiment are confident that within the lifetime of most persons today the proce dures developed here will be put to commercial use. WATiami ( Taste the Difference J J r 6-YiAR-0LD Whiskey J ;g makes in a Blend! sUIFilAZIER III -arjy,-. Ill estimated $8 billion in revenue a year. Will the new President want to renew them, or let them die and take a chance on being able to cut government spending by that much later on? Social Security payroll deduc tion tax rates are scheduled to go up from l'.-i to 2 per cent for both employers and employes on Jan. 1, 1954, for a-five-year period. This increase has been posponed in years past. But since both political parties are on record in favor of expanding the social security sys tem, this time the rise may stick. But all these matters bring up the possibility of a brand new tax program under the leadership of a new President. Complete over haul of the federal tax code has been advocated for many years, but never put through. The New Man will have a chance to show what he can do here, if he has a mind to. And the political chickens in the campaign promises to cut taxes will then begin to come borne to roost. Ike's Korea Trip Meets Approval Of Defense Aide SEOUL, Korea Wl Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosen berg, completing a five-day inspec tion tour of Korea, said Tuesday she is sure President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower will profit by a trip to Korea. Eisenhower said he would go to Korea to see first hand the prob lems confronting the United Na tions there. He has said he will make the trip before he is Inaug urated Jan. 20. Mrs. Rosenberg told a news con ference she will urge two max? mum efforts upon United Statci officials: , 1. Continued rotation of U. S. troops in Korea through replace ments. 2. Strengthening and building up the South Korean (ROK) Army, which she described as "a great fighting army that has shown amazing development." Asked whether she thought Ei senhower would find a visit to Ko rea valuable, she replied: "General Eisenhower knows this game Setter than I do He knows what he wants to do. I'm sure he'll profit by it and I'm sure he'll do what is right." Journey Arouses Concern She said it is only natural if there is concern in the minds of people at home about a President elect going on such a journey. Mrs. Rosenberg talked with hun dreds of troops at the front. She said "they all still want t go home there isn't any question. They all want to know about ro tation. But they do not mean go ing home at the expense of finish ing their job." She said she did not think It woilld be necessary to increase the monthly draft call to keep up tha replacement rate. 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